The little British computer that's taken the world by storm! It's the ideal way to take your first steps in coding, and our range of kits, add-ons, and accessories make it fun to learn with Raspberry Pi.

Arduino and other Arduino-compatible microcontrollers are perfect when you need a small, rock-solid controller for your project. Program them, pop them into your project, and they'll happily run forever.

Kits are great all-in-one bundles that make perfect gifts, holiday projects, or just as a way to get started with something. Most of our range of kits blend creativity and making with electronics and coding.

Breakouts add handy functions to your microcontroller, be it a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or something else. They tend to be dedicated to just one or a couple of functions, like audio output, motor driving, or sensors, but can be built up into larger projects.

This is where you'll find all sorts of handy bits and bobs for your projects, or just to stock up your kit box. Wires, LEDs, speakers, power supplies, header pins, sensors, integrated circuits, you name it!

Adafruit LED Charlieplexed Matrix - 9x16 LEDs

These super-cute little 9x16 charlieplexed LED matrices have 144 LEDs which can be independently driven and PWMed to your hearts content.

Combine with the handy little I2C backpack for the ability to PWM each individual LED in a 16x9 grid so you can have beautiful LED lighting effects, without a lot of pin twiddling. Simply tell the chip which LED on the grid you want lit, and what brightness and it's all taken care of for you.

Reviews

I bought one of these, along with the (necessary) I2C Controller Backpack (IS31FL3731) driver board.
Very nice PWM LEDS with beautiful fades, and dead easy to solder, attach to the Arduino or other micro controller, and easy to code. Some nice examples included, including a very nice rolling fade. Worth checking out the Adafruit tutorials and projects for this too. Nice!

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Adafruit LED Charlieplexed Matrix - 9x16 LEDs

These super-cute little 9x16 charlieplexed LED matrices have 144 LEDs which can be independently driven and PWMed to your hearts content.
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